Guest Editorial Distributed Signal Processing for Security and Privacy in Networked Cyber-Physical Systems

Guest Editorial Special Section on Cyber-Physical Systems and Security for Smart Grid

Neural-Smith Predictor Method for Improvement of Networked Control Systems

Networked control systems (NCSs) are distributed control systems in which the nodes, including controllers, sensors, actuators, and plants are connected by a digital communication network such as the Internet. One of the most critical challenges in networked control systems is the stochastic time delay of arriving data packets in the communication network among the nodes. Using the Smith predic...

Engineering cybersecurity in cyber physical systems

Advances in the interconnected capabilities of cyber physical systems (CPS) affect virtually every engineered system. Today, software approaches dominate all aspects of connecting the physical and cyber worlds in part due to the convergence of computing, control and communications software technologies. Unfortunately, software technologies are more vulnerable to cybersecurity problems than trad...

A Middleware Architecture for Securing Ubiquitous Computing Cyber Infrastructures

Ubiquitous computing is revolutionizing the way applications, users, resources, and physical spaces interact. In this paper we address securing cyber infrastructures for ubiquitous computing environments, like smart buildings and campuses. Our emphasis here is to construct a middleware-based critical cyber infrastructure (CCI) that encompasses heterogeneous components and binds networks, proces...

Guest Editorial: Advances in Secure Distributed and Network-Based Computing

Modern information systems are geographically distributed, parallel and network-based computing systems. The vulnerability of such computing systems greatly exceed the vulnerability of stand-alone computers. This is due, primarily, to the openness scale and heterogeneity of computer networks themselves. Accordingly, there are many ways to realize modern network attacks against distributed, para...